January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

CALIFORNIA||RONNYRAINS@YAHOO.COM||||10|Kent: I sent off for 8 more Quarry bouts
from Newspapers,Seattle,Albuquerque,Canton Ohio,Denver,St.Paul,Kansas City,And
now I know who was the biggest pro JQ fought,non-other than you guessed
it,Charley Reno! All 251 pounds of him, and had 50 pounds on the 201 1/4lb
Quarry.I've figured for a long time Ring Magazine had made a mistake on the
weights Quarry 212 to RENO'S 221,just did not seem right to me,Especially since
Jerry never came into the ring at even 210 pounds, 209 3/4 vs "Scrap Iron" In
Hawii,Was Jerry's heaviest. take care!|
|8/14/03 04:00:30 PM|Massimo|Rome||uffa !||||10|Buster Mathis was an incredible
guy ! He fought his first pro fight in 1965 at 300 lb against Bob Maynard and
three years later fought against James J. Beattie at 229. I thinkis weight
was about 231 lb against Jerry Quarry and about 330 against Ali' !!!!!! Anyway,
he had a good career !! |
|8/14/03 07:21:19 PM|JIMMY DORSEY|VENTURA
CALIFORNIA||RONNYRAINS@YAHOO.COM||||10|Yu are very well right,Big Buster had
nothing to be ashamed of 35-4 at least 23 knockouts or so,Bonavena was good,But
to me a little overly ranked,case in point,he won outright robberies vs LEOTIS
MARTIN,AL "BLUE" LEWIS,and ZORA FOLLEY,and FOLLEY'S Boxing lesson he dished out
to Oscar,would have been his second win over RINGO,I remember the W.B.A. was
they only one to rank Oscar over JQ, for the number # 1 contender spot in late
1970.after Bonavena's DQ Loss to Paez,and Jerry had just KO'D 24-0 MAC FOSTER.|
|8/15/03 04:42:48 AM|Massimo|Rome||shaq.com||||10|Zora Folley !! I think Zora
was a master of boxing ( or boxing's master ?) ! Anyway, Bob Foster, one of the
greatest boxing' s champions of all times, said "he taught me how to box". I
think that Sonny ( or I think Sonny ?) was great when beat him in 1960
(unfortunately I never could watch the fight but Ihave read about it) within
3 rounds. I think Sonny Liston (or I think that Sonny Liston) of the period
1958-1962 was a real champion and would have beaten even a prime Mike Tyson
because he had the same power and areach twice longer...|
|8/15/03 11:00:24 AM|anonymous|usa||anonymous||||8|Kent, never can be too
careful on the internet, so I will remain anonymous. Even though my question
was not directed to you, thanks for the answer |
|8/17/03 10:51:41 AM|Massimo|Rome||shaqbetterthanchamberlain.com||||10|I have
just discovered that in the Clay-Sabedong fight the weights were exactly: Clay:
194 1/2 Sabedong:225I give you this information freely ( what a great
person I am !).|
|8/18/03 01:25:31 PM|Bob Bumbera|NC||renfbera@aol.com||||10|I've been reading
the Cooney thing here for the last few weeks and thought I'd through in my two
cents. Gerry was a big strong guy with a deadly left hook. He was also quick
of both hand and feet. He had a good left jab, fast and straight and a good
powerful right hand. Larry Holmes exposed him, the good, bad and ugly, for what
he was. A big strong guy with a deadly left hook. He did hurt Holmes several
times and it was not one a one sided fight. What it came down to was Cooneys
heart, maybe not even his heart but the deamons inside himself. Faced with
adversity he withered away. The Spinks fight, the Foreman fight,same thing.
Maybe he was drinking or snorting coke or what ever, that's nothing new in the
fight game. Remember Mickey Walker, the old saying was "He won a hundred
fights, many of them sober". Or what about Aaron Pryor. He was getting high
DURING fights. Bottom line on Cooney is he just didn't have it inside, where it
counts. And to Massimo, I don't think Liston would have beaten a prime Tyson.
Tyson was too quick for Sonny. And did you know both Shaq and your buddy Primo
Carnera wore the same size shoe? Size 22. Oh yeah before I forget, no way Jerry
beats Foreman. Ever. |
|8/18/03 04:38:49 PM|Massimo|Rome||shaqbetterthanjabbar.com||||10|Bob, thanks
for the answer ! I don't think Carnera ( thanks for the free English
lesson...)wore the same shoe' s size ( or shoes's size, bah ! ) of Shaq. I
don' t know the American sistem for shoes measure but in the Italian sistem Shaq